prayer flags + snow sags ... ideas + changes ...
i heard Boreas - [the north wind] - growl and chant all night long - with the same sustained perseverance as the Gyuto Monks' harmonic Freedom Chants - ebbing, drifting, and modulating without pause throughout the darkness ...
no wonder so many mythologies were born from nature in years gone by - before rational explanations and science demystified the events ...
fear often generates irrational behavior - but sometimes, in the case of pagan deities, fear coupled with imagination produced a heroic cast of images and stories - memories of humanity's childhood which become precious in their innocence - and poignant in their simplicity - "out of the mouths of babes" ...
today, because science is so attentive, and phenomena still exists along with resistance to change and acceptance - fear finds refuge in ambiguity and disinformation; usually seasoned with sufficient dubious evidence to prolong debate or sustain denial ... [post modern linguistics of appropriated truth; sounds like required reading for litigation attorneys] ...
i'm interested in allowing discoveries to remain marvelous while being cognizant of realities that govern them - kind of like re-mystifying science - and i believe that it's done by re-humanizing; or understanding and appreciating the simple human struggles that we all share in common while on our paths to doing whatever we do - i mean, the real mystery that doesn't seem to have any consensus is: the meaning of life thru death and beyond, and our consciousness of it - so it seems, that if we are to speak to what we know, then we need to focus on the events we participate in - the shared struggle and appreciation of qualities achieved and adversities survived ...
Jacob Bronowski, author of "The Ascent of Man", knew Albert Einstein - and described at one point, a story of Einstien's childhood - that he wondered 'what the world would look like if he rode on a beam of light' - a daydream that eventually revolutionized physics and the world after all the components of the abstraction were assembled - and its the word 'eventually' that becomes more interesting than the equation - what it took in time, study, sacrifice, navigating through the politics and prejudice of the day, the frustration, anger, delight, and the rewards of accomplishment and commitment - that's the real story of relativity ... and part of what popularized his idea, was not only the functionality of his theorems, but the collective consciousness of a world willing to implement the changes they implied ...
in a few centuries, the world came a long way from Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton ...
every day is riddled with the imaginings of billions of sentient beings - some never spoken, some are dismissed, and many surrendered to futility and resistance - but occasionally, with the persistence of a few - some of those ideas break through - and the process and stories of birthing ideas is something to be marveled ...
but i guess the same could be said for the astonishment that accompanies resistance to change and new ideas - yesterday's bipartisan summit in D.C. was a good example; especially when Obama asked one of his health care opponents if they would feel the same way about the legislation they were promoting if they only earned 40K ... the room fell silent - you could hear a politician breath ...
